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This guy was the first mech pet I got to 25 way back when. Lead off with Build Turret, and mix in Metal Fist while the turret is on cd. Does pretty good chip damage with a couple turrets up. Use Repair at around 50% health, and as long as your opponent doesn't have any big-hitting abilities, it will proc at least by the time your failsafe mechanism kicks in.
I got a 4, 14 (Destruction) breed of this guy and he's been one of my mainstays ever since. Good mix of moves, and with his high damage/high healing, he's got great survivability, and he absolutely crushes Elemental pets with a Surge, Healing Wave, Whirlpool moveset. Surge makes his high damage, low speed combo almost a non-factor, since you can always get off a finishing attack even against faster opponents. Pop Whirlpool, Surge, Surge, and Healing Wave as needed :D
Hated going against Fezwick, the epic one of these from the DMF pet battle. The banana move just seemed so OP. He could get about 5 hits out of it over two rounds, while I couldn't fight back.
Sure is nice being able to pull one of these guys out against any critter though :)
Been trying to catch a rare of these for 3-4 weeks now. This is the last Northrend pet that I still need a rare of. Finally found one as the third pet along with a couple shore crabs. I was using my Nether Fairie Dragon's Slicing Wind attack and it hits 3 times with 2 crits and killed the damn penguin. My hunt continues...
Update: Two days later, went with the Dragonbone strategy mentioned below. After about 50 more fights, I finally caught one.
I was flying over to get to the Hinterlands and remembered I needed one of these. Couldn't spot anything on my main server, so I logged into an old toon I had sitting on Kael'Thas. Flew over to Refuge Point and found about 5 of them. First one I checked was rare :)
Just saw one of these for the first time on AH for 10k. Decided to pull the trigger and buy it up. Now I have my All-Eye Squadron, with my Arcane Eye, and the Darkmoon Eye I finally won yesterday after doing the daily since September. Happy days...
Went by Coldarra about a week ago and couldn't find any spawns. Went back today. Spotted one, turned out to be Poor, and I accidently two-shot it. The next one I found was a Rare :) I do think its strange that this pet isn't counted as part of the Northrend Safari acheivement.
I just realized I didn't have one of these, so I flew down to Tranquillen, and started riding around to the spawn points, but wasn't finding any. I rode past the Dawnstar Spire, then swam across the lake. I got to Goldenmist Village where I finally saw a spawn, and it turned out to be a level 5 rare. Quickly captured it, and killed the Snake that was with it. This one is my 350th unique pet :)
Such a nuisance, I've probably fought 200 of these things before coming across my first rare, and my damn pet critted it on the 2nd hit and killed it. I'll probably not see another rare for 200 more battles. My only consolation is finding a rare Crimson Moth two fights later
[edit] I was afraid of killing the moth, so 2nd team I sent to fight it wound up being to weak, and they lost. 8 fights later, I found another rare Polly and caught this one, after it killed my Mr. Grubbs
I got a rare on the 5th fight. Pretty glad too, since I did this on my BElf mage and it's a real pain to get out to Bloodmyst for a Horde, so I didn't want to have to go back there again.
I just snagged mine while I was flying through Dustwallow to do some Archeology leveling on my DK. I stopped off in the area, and after about 20 seconds, I saw Dart run past. I checked a couple nests and found his on the third one. Now back to Un'Goro to try for the Ravasaur...
Love having him for the cooking part, and he's fun to have hanging around my goblin rogue because they're the same size. It's been a pain to level him, but he's really paid off this month for the darkmoon pet battle. Flamethrower, followed up with Conflagrate, absolutely destroys the Tonk. Leveled him from 21 to 23 just from those last two fights :)
I decided to upgrade my Blighthawk on my way back from EPL. I've spent about 30 minutes already just flying around and engaging every pet I see. Only found one on the map, one was poor, the second common. Every single other one I've seen has been poor quality, and I'm saying that's about 50 of them so far...
Update, the magic of the post worked :) Very next pet had a rare with it, woot! Accidentally killed it using Swarm, but caught it first try once it rezzed
I'm so pumped I just won my own. I was pretty dejected after losing out on my last attempt with a 93 roll and the winner rolled a 94. This time I won with only an 84 roll, go figure. So awesome to finally have him :)
He's going to be my favorite critter pet, no doubt
Thanks for the down-vote. I power-leveled him, and even at 13 he was able to go up against lvl 23 roaches. Once his speed is comparable to the opponent, use Dodge, and keep the DoT up :)
I wanted this guy as soon as I first fought him. I only had one level 25 Ony whelping, a lvl 21 Sinister Squashling and a level 17 Clockwork Rocket Bot. I got two wins out of about 30 attempts, while also leveling the squashling up to 24 and the CRB up to 21 just to make it more competitive. Sadly, my 2nd win came on the last day of the faire. I'm hoping that I'll get him to drop next month. In the meantime, I'm leveling up my Arcane Eye as a poor substitute...
I just saw one of these on the AH for 30G. Immediate buyout...
I would have expected it to be several hundred gold, but I'm sure not complaining :)
This guy is excellent for crushing beasts. Also, the Lock-On ability is able to target an enemy pet that is submerged or has lifted off, so you don't have to wait that extra round to set it up. Ion Cannon usually hits for over 1k on beasts, but you'll be vulnerable for a couple rounds if you miss or get dodged.
I decided to start farming this on my hunter since I was in Zul'Drak and wanted to see if there were any other cool pets to get. I killed about 30 raptor, then had to leave to do something else. A couple days later I had to come back with my shammy to get herbs, and I decided to take another shot at it. I did about 2 hours of killing all the raptors I saw, and it just dropped on about my 200th kill of the day. Very excited to have this guy to go along with my Lashtail. Wouldn't sell it for 10k... :)
Took me 4 days to get myself a rare. I checked the cellar today and there were about 7 spawns. Mostly uncommons, but the last one on my way back out to the entrance was the rare. Glad to have this one done with.
I had to have this guy once they introduced pet battles, so I dropped the $10, and annoyingly, no more than 3 days later, Blizz did a half off promotion for him :(
I'm disappointed that his Life Siphon doesn't scale very well as you level. At 20, it only returns about 50-80 HP per round, which doesn't do much of anything when you are getting hit for at least 150 HP by pretty much any pet around the same level. If it gave back 15-20% health, I think he'd be more effective.
I got a rare of these the first time I saw one. I've been using him as my primary beast while I'm leveling my Lashtail Hatchling. He can really deliver some punishment, and has lots of HP to weather some hits, which is important as he has no ability to heal himself during battle. It's too bad he doesn't have Devour, since that would really enhance his survivability during fights, but that might make him to OP.


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MONTREAL — Don't worry, you don't need to own a Ferrari to join the Scuderia Ferrari Club of Montreal.
All you need is passion, a word that comes up again and again when you speak to its members.
"As long as you have the passion," Chris Szoke said. "That's what being a Ferrari fan is — it's all about the passion."
"We want to get together with people who have the same passion," added Ernesto Anelli, the club's president.
Okay, we get it. Passion. You need to have the Prancing Horse tattooed on your heart. Or, in the case of Szoke, on his right arm.
So far, more than 130 passionate people have become members of the first Formula One fan club in North America that has earned official recognition from Ferrari headquarters in Maranello, Italy. They do what fan clubs do: Get together, share stories, attend functions, organize events and find other ways to indulge in their, well, passion.
For Ferrari Club members, that means gathering on Sunday mornings to watch F1 races at cafés around the city, organizing carting events at facilities like Kart-O-Mania on de la Savane St., embarking on pilgrimages to the Gilles Villeneuve museum in Berthierville and, of course, attending the Canadian Grand Prix when it rolls into town.
"It's just guys who love cars, who love racing, who love F1 and especially who love Ferrari," says Szoke, 43, who lives in Dollard des Ormeaux and works as a doorman at a downtown hotel.
Well, not just guys. The club is open to everyone, all ages and walks of life. But, yes, the current membership is predominantly male, as you might expect. The executive committee is composed of eight men and one woman.
The club was founded in 2013, and the goal is to build it into the biggest Ferrari F1 club in the world, says Anelli, 49, who lives in La Prairie and works for a transport company.
Anelli reckons that goal is attainable because, in Italy, for example, members are scattered among more than 130 clubs throughout the country, whereas Montreal can hope to bring in fans from all over Quebec and beyond.
Not surprisingly, the biggest Ferrari fan club is in Milan, near Monza, home of the Italian Grand Prix, with about 600 members, according to Anelli.
Among the perks of belonging to a club bearing official status, new members receive welcome kits provided by the Scuderia in Italy, and they can buy team merchandise at reduced prices.
The kits include the expected items like a membership card, guide book, photos and stickers, but also a flag inscribed with the message — you guessed it — "The Official Ferrari Passion."
Of course, the Prancing Horse has been on the limp in recent years, not having won an F1 driver's title since 2007, courtesy of Kimi Raikkonen. This season, the team finds itself third in the constructors' standings, behind Mercedes and Red Bull.
And yet, Szoke says, members of the Montreal club remain faithful to the iconic brand and confident of a return to glory for the winningest franchise in F1 history, with 16 constructors' crowns in its trophy case, seven more than the next-best Williams team.
"Some of these guys have been following Ferrari for 20, 30 years; they've seen all this before," Szoke said. "It's just a matter of time.
"It's like the Habs. Even when things aren't great, they still have a following."
Anelli added: "I'll be honest; I think there's frustration among fans. But has the passion gone away? No.
"That's what fans are supposed to do — you support your team during the highs and lows."
There's that word again. Passion.
For information on the Scuderia Ferrari Club of Montreal, visit scuderiaferrariclubmontreal.com
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SHI SHI BEACH, Wash.
First there's a drive through windy seaside and tree-lined roads. Then there's a peek at the farthest northwest point in the lower 48 states. Finally, after a two-mile hike along a wilderness trail with a descent down a 150-foot bluff, the reward is one of the most pristine spots on the coastline of Olympic National Park: Shi Shi Beach.
Curved conifers stand behind the beach as a testament to wind power. Deer wander down the bluffs to nip at leaves. Eagles perch atop bare pine trees. Driftwood washed ashore by Pacific waves lines the sand banks. In all, the 2.3-mile beach located at the northern end is an unpolished gem, far less visited than other park beaches with easier access.
"I like it because you see the expanse and you can be alone," said Tom Ammann, who's been hiking this coastal area for eight years, mostly in winter and fall. "I think that's one of the nicer places on the planet, actually."
Farther along the beach, one of Shi Shi's most striking features is Point of Arches, a collection of rock formations known as sea stacks standing tall above the surf. Natural arches and caves decorate this part of the coast and provide exploring grounds for sea creatures once low tide comes in. Ambitious hikers can continue down the coastline, either on the beach or through the forest using marked trails.
"We go out there in that solitude with open space," Ammann said. "You just sit there and you look – something that's kind of lost in this culture."
But while your cellphone won't work here, the modern world intrudes in other ways. The beach is sprinkled with debris washed up by ocean currents – including items you don't normally find in everyday litter, such as drums, child-sized blocks of Styrofoam, ropes and boots. Some of it comes across the Pacific from Asia, including debris from the Japanese tsunami, which park spokeswoman Rainey McKenna said is expected to continue to wash up for a number of years.
Camping is allowed on the beach, along with campfires as long as driftwood is used to build the fire. Park rules require that all food and garbage be stored in bear-proof canisters, although a park ranger said the most commonly seen animals are raccoons and skunks. Indeed, on our second night, a skunk was attracted to the smell of our roasting salami, scuttling about the campsite before disappearing back into the brush.
All supplies must be carried in – you won't find concessions here – and all garbage must be carried out. There are three pit toilets behind the beach but they don't provide much privacy.
Shi Shi (pronounced shy shy) was one of the last additions to Olympic National Park in 1976. Public access to the beach was created only after a protracted struggle involving developers, land owners and squatters, according to the Washington Trails Association. And the trail to the beach can only be reached after driving through the Makah Indian Reservation, which visitors must pay to enter, and where they must also pay to park their cars. Shi Shi is a Makah term for surf or smelt beach – a reference to the small silvery fish that are still found on the coast.
"The only thing grander than Shi Shi's natural beauty is its resilience in the face of forces that would have prohibited us from enjoying and admiring this national treasure," a guide from the trails association states.
While natural beauty is the main reason to come here, Shi Shi does offer other attractions. The waves are big enough to draw wetsuit-clad surfers. A few kids swam freely in the waves despite water temperatures that are typically in the low 50s in summer, while young campers climbed a bluff after playing Frisbee.
On the weekend I visited, the fog disappeared early afternoon and gave way to searing sunshine. It got so hot it felt like I was on some tropical beach, instead of just a few hours from home, and blissfully disconnected.


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Don't know what you got till it's gone
Don't know what it is I did so wrong
Now I know what I got
It's just this song
And it ain't easy to get back
Takes so longI am positive that Cinderella wasn't thinking about an under-appreciated French-Canadian defensemen when they penned those lyrics to a song that featured a ridiculous music video where a grand piano is on the ocean's shore while a man wearing too many rings for 2 hands screams into the sky his sad, sad song. But, there is no question that I was able to link the two together.
You see, Robidas getting hurt hits those of us, who have had a relationship with this team every game of every season for the long term, right in the heart. There is no avoiding that he is an unlikely fan favorite who would certainly not match up with any idea from Central Casting of what a fan favorite would be. He is not the guy who scores amazing goals or makes amazing plays. He doesn't seem to possess Mike Modano looks, instead covered with scars of hockey battles that have taken a toll.
But, he is a fan favorite for the very reason that you would want someone to ultimately be a fan favorite. Because he has given every ounce of his strength, energy, resolve, and effort to the organization that he was employed to perform for. He is the embodiment of the foot soldier in professional sports, in that he has battled for every inch he has ever been given. The rare bird who seemed like he entered the sport as a fringe player, scratched and clawed to elude that status for the first half of his career, and then spent the last several years being admired league wide as a text-book example of what playing this sport for a living is all about.
Since the lockout that took away the 2004-2005 season, Stephane Robidas has played 13,336 minutes of ice-time for the Dallas Stars - easily the most of any player. That is 21:43 of every game, every year since then for what amounts to almost a decade. That is apparently 16,238 shifts, or 26.3 per game for every game over every season since, which for Robi is 614. All of those numbers lead the team, except for the games, which his buddy and fellow soldier, Trevor Daley actually has played 4 more games, but fewer minutes and shifts. Nobody else comes close. Those are the two links to the past around here, and both of them have done what they could to fix what has gone off the track for the Stars defense corps for years and years.
And yet, they both were never going to be Sergei Zubov or Derian Hatcher, and so in both cases, every summer when guys like me whine about this team so badly needing an elite #1 defensemen, we generally allow our complaints to take out the collateral damage of those of lesser ability. #3 and #6 both have been the targets of misplaced complaints, while proudly and bravely standing guard carving out their own careers shift after shift, and bruise after bruise.
And that is the most remarkable characteristic of Robidas and the enduring image that I will always remember when his career is over, that he could take the biggest beating of any professional athlete I have ever seen. He seriously has sustained so many injuries in so many horrible instances that looked like they would have knocked a normal player out for a few weeks, that we just assumed that he is not normal in his body construction. He seemed to be a bit cyborg-like in that he could not be kept down - think the cop in Terminator 2, but much kinder. He would just bounce back up and take his next shift, because he always does that.
So, players who just go about their business and who never need a production around them when they get a bruise end up flying under the radar, because they are the constant. There are variables in sports and there are constants that you can depend upon and just assume are going to be there the same day after day and year after year. I guess you can be unreasonably mad at him for not being Bobby Orr, but you can't be mad at him for giving you 100% of Stephane Robidas. That was a given.
When he stayed down on Friday night, right next to the end boards that he slid into after his leg seemed to break from a rather normal skating stride, you knew it was serious. He doesn't stay down. He pops back up as he always has, because he is Robidas. That is what Robi does. He has been our constant and the one you never worry about.
There was no other way to describe it. It just was profoundly sad. He will bounce back, because if anyone understand the grind necessary to do what these guys do for a living, it is Steph, but I hate to see him have to go through it. I wish he would shake it off and take his next shift like every other time he looked to be in bad shape.
This will take months, and a team that has done a nice job of maintaining health will now have to figure out how to cover this major absence. He no longer plays as much each game as Alex Goligoski or Brenden Dillon, but along with Trevor Daley, he takes a ton of ice time, and this is where a rather ordinary blue-line will be tested again to replace an important piece by asking Sergei Gonchar to step up and be counted upon back in the Top 4.
Just last night (before the injury) Stars General Manager Jim Nill said in a radio interview with me that Jamie Oleksiak is not ready yet and that the Stars need to play the long game and wait for him to push himself into the NHL, not rush him through valuable steps. On the other hand, he will be in Dallas by sundown, so perhaps things change when bones break. That leaves Aaron Rome and Kevin Connauton to push up and grab the spot next to Jordie Benn as the 5-6 pair that plays valuable spots, but not as highly leveraged. Clearly, even with a healthy Robidas, Nill needs to figure out ways to inject elite talent into the blue-line as he had to the forward group with Tyler Seguin and Valeri Nichushkin over his first 6 months in office.
But, the time has to be right. Cap space is a resource that should not be wasted on just anyone because you have money burning a hole in your pocket (we have some examples on the roster presently that we might like to have kept the receipts for a full refund), but in the right scenario, I am sure Nill wants to speed things along so that he can fix and develop at a reasonable rate while getting results.
These are realities that will reveal themselves in the weeks and months to come.
Also, on that list will be finding out how badly we have taken Stephane Robidas for granted. As Cinderella so eloquently penned the lyrics, clearly you only appreciate Robi when you don't have him to take for granted anymore.
Don't know what you got till it's gone
He isn't gone, just missing in action for now. But, his contract does expire this season and leg injuries like that are likely to require more time than his deal will presently allow. I would love to be wrong, but months are needed, and the season goes by fast.
So does a career.
Hopefully the team can respond well and use his absence to inspire in the short term. And hopefully, that is all that he is missing. And while he is gone, it might be a good opportunity for those who have wanted to move him to realize what he has meant around here for so long.
So, Robi, thanks for getting me reacquainted with Cinderella.
Now, get better quickly.


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Hands-On With the Ouya Game Console
Ouya, the new $100 Android-based gaming console, is aiming to take on the "big three" game console makers. But with mostly indie games and no media streaming apps, will it appeal to a broader market? AllThingsD's Lauren Goode reviews.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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OK Gang hopefully one of you experts can help me out here.
We've got a 1999 50 Gibson Cabin Yacht with onboatr 100 gallon freshwater tanks and an exterior freshwater connection to take water in from a dockside fresh water hose.
We always seem to be drawing from the holding tank and never from the dock connection. Filling the holding tank gets a bit tedious
What boating god do I need to sacrafice to in order to use the dock water connection? I've looked all over and don't see any obvious valves and the owner manual makes no mention of this.
What am I missing here?


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The Captain wields a mean champagne bottle in victory lane (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
By Mike Mulhern
HOMESTEAD, Fla.
The Captain, as Roger Penske is known, is on the verge of one of his greatest victories ever, the NASCAR championship.
It's taken him some 40 years....since that first run in the late winter of '72 at old Riverside, with Mark Donohue. Remember those Matador days?
Now, 1,396 races later, Penske is about to finish the job that couldn't be done even with legends like Bobby Allison and Rusty Wallace.
Brad Keselowski, take a bow.
Penske, who has studied racing talent from just about every angle, including Formula 1, says Keselowski reminds him most of legendary Rick Mears. High praise indeed.
And Penske says, after all these years, he is "thrilled" to be on the brink of making such big history, with the final touches anticipated in Sunday's Homestead 400.
Barring a big surprise or some disaster.
Keselowski need finish only 15th or better, no matter what Jimmie Johnson does, to win the Sprint Cup title. If Keselowski leads a lap, he need finish only 16th. There are several 'tying' scenarios; if Johnson wins, and the two tie, Johnson would take the title, based on wins, 6-5. If the two tie, and Johnson doesn't win the 400, Johnson would still take the title, with more second place finishes over the season.
Jimmie Johnson: desperate. Head games? (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
However Las Vegas is already banking on a Keselowski title. He's a 1-to-15 bet to win it; Johnson is 10-1.
At the start of this season Johnson was the title favorite in Vegas, 9-2, and Keselowski was a 20-1.
So it hasn't been that bad a season at all for Keselowski, who at the start of 2011 was a whopping 300-to-1 long shot in Vegas championship odds.
Now Penske is about to beat stock car kingpin Rick Hendrick at his own game -- and with one of the men Hendrick, inexplicably, let get away. Hendrick-engineered teams have won six straight Cup championships and 11 of the last 17. No wonder Penske calls Johnson-Hendrick 'the gold standard' in this sport.
Brad Keselowski: NASCAR's Mr. Twitter (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
This is only Keselowski's third season with Penske. "He's earned the respect of the garage, the drivers, the crews, the officials, and certainly he's gained a lot of fans," Penske says.
"Early on, he was rough, he was bumping people. There was that with Carl Edwards and other people.
"But he's learned, like a lot of the great drivers who have gone through that rough patch."
Keselowski's performances this season have been remarkably consistent. And places where he hasn't been good in other years, he's been good this year.
"It's been consistency," Penske says. "And I think he's a great athlete."
Well, yes, but what has made Keselowski a championship contender is how he stole a page from the Jimmie Johnson playoff playbook and took command of the race right from the start, with that upsetting victory at Chicago.
And then at Martinsville Keselowski rebounded brilliantly from a very poor starting spot, to hang in the title game with the surging Johnson.
Again at Texas Keselowski surprised, challenging Johnson so hard that Tony Stewart, the sport's defending champ, joked that Keselowski "must have a death wish."
That first championship has been so long in coming.... (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
That's all impressed Penske, who at times has seemed almost giddy about the title run.
a great athlete, a great race driver but also someone that's thinking. He's a thinkingman's driver, which is very important in today's sport."
Now, if Penske he still has that big boat parked just down in the Keys, there could be some great partying in the making. (Remember when Penske, fellow team owners Felix Sabates and Dale Earnhardt, and Bill France Jr., would informally battle it out over who could bring the biggest boat to the NASCAR parties?)
"We're very fortunate to have him part of Penske Racing. He's made us a better team," Penske says.
Penske then adds that Keselowski is "a lot like Rick Mears -- really understated, but someone who, when it was time, can dig deep and make it happen.
"...a pretty special class as far as I'm concerned.
"Brad is in contact with me every day, and you know how," Penske said with a laugh. "I'm not a tweeter at this point. Maybe next year.
"But he's passionate about the sport, and he wants me to be involved, as he has the rest of the team. And we've stepped it up.
"I'm very anxious to have Joey (Logano) join; Joey seems to be the same kind of person.
"Brad has not only pushed me as an individual, he's pushed the team in a positive direction...and he's delivering. It's one thing when someone is pushing you and they don't deliver. But he seems to be able to give us that extra push, and deliver."
Two years ago Roger Penske and Brad Keselowski took the Nationwide championship. Now they're just hours away from the Sprint Cup title (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
That it's taken Penske so long to get to this point is surprising. Past surprising, really.
Signing 1989 champ Rusty Wallace for the 1991 season was one of his best moves. They made good runs at the title in 1993 (2nd to Earnhardt) and 1994 (3rd, to Earnhardt).
But that was then and this is now, and times have changed considerably. "It's not about how much money you have, and what you can buy for the track; it's about the people," Penske says. "It's about the human capital we've been able to put together.
"This business has changed. It's a little more technical now, a little more in our bailiwick. And we're executing."
Hanging over this championship is Penske's pending move to Ford for 2013, after 10 years with Dodge.
Dodge officials have been scarce this season since Penske announced in March he would move to Ford.
Dodge's Ralph Gilles did show up at Phoenix last Saturday but didn't stay for Sunday's 500K.
Chrysler boss Sergio Marchionne, who apparently has never seen a NASCAR Cup race, is reported to be in Austin, Texas, this weekend for the Formula 1 race.
Any advice from Penske for Dodge/Chrysler execs and NASCAR?
"Dodge obviously has been a great partner," Penske says. "The support they've given us over this last 12 months has been doubled up.
"We have a great relationship. We represent them in the retail auto network (three Dodge dealerships); so we're a big supporter of their products.
"I've talked to Dodge about what might be available," Penske says. "We've got 16 Nationwide cars and probably 60 engines, and I said that it might be a good idea, if there are some young people out there, people you want to support, that you take the things we have and run them.
"We've got some parts and pieces that might be pretty good for someone. That's a sales call I just made."
Pointedly, for certain.
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A few people that are unlucky enough to have to see myself and Pete regularly will know that we've spent the past winter improving on our crack climbing skills and taking things down a size or two. In fact it's gone right down in size. We've by-passed hand jams and fists (aren't they just belays anyway?) and decided to spend some time crushing our nerves in cracks of less than 1 inch.
There is method in this madness, but for the meantime bare with us! The whole experience of the "wide world" has taught us a few handy tricks and at the moment, we need to broaden the skills (and strengths) a little to take on the next little (big?!) challenge.
As a result of the above, we are going to revive our Wideboyz blog. Yes I know, it's an abomination to enjoyment in climbing…. but what can you do?! As a little taster for this stuff to come this year (we're making some more films with the Hotaches guys) I've filmed some training footage from my cellar.
For anyone who's interested in the whole training link details (just the individual sections shown in this clip) it's a 100ft offwidth (8a+ ish) to V8 finger crack crux into an 80ft 8a+ roof hand crack. Guaranteed to get a sweaty brow!
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I think it's worth leaving in the fact that Clendenin knows what he's talking about more than most of the other writers linked here. -FrJohn
- Agreed. I'm gonna "scholarize" the lingo a bit, then. --Rdr. Andrew
- Great! FrJohn
Can anyone find a page in which to insert a link to this article? At the moment it exists in isolation... --Matrona 11:19, 14 Oct 2005 (EDT)
Non-Chalcedonian Polemics
I gather these have been resolved by official Eastern Orthodox Chuch hierarchy over a decade ago. I am offended seeing the Coptic Orthodox Church listed as Anti-Orthodox under this category. For your information, we are a Church of martyrs up to this day: http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=85&art_id=qw1129782066324B221 (Coptic nun stabbed in chest)
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Religion&loid=8.0.220123440&par=0 (Muslim mobs (>5,000) are right now surrounding the church and the situation is out of control)
http://www.copts.net/detail.asp?id=795 (Reuters - latest 21/10/05)
http://www.copts.net/detail.asp?id=796 (BREAKING NEWS: 10,000 LAY VIOLENT SIEGE TO COPTIC CHURCH - 21/10/05)
I think we should now concentrate on praying for the persecuted Church around the world rather than on our Christological "differences"!
- I am removing this section/sub-heading, as there are no links or other information. Any links or other information which may come up might better be structured under Oriental Orthodox, or another page relating to the differences between Chalcedonian and Non-Chalcedonian congregations (for instance, Christology or Council of Chalcedon). Arbible, it might be a good idea to think of this inclusion as an honest mistake, i.e., give the benefit of a doubt, rather than a signal of "fighting." [[User:Magda|—magda (talk)]] 11:40, 21 Oct 2005 (EDT)
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- I most certainly did NOT list the Coptic religion as "anti-Orthodox". I merely provided a category where information on and links to non-Chalcedonian polemics could be added. I would appreciate it if the category was added back. --Matrona 13:30, 21 Oct 2005 (EDT)


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Europeans: one of Rhizome's flagship programs, Seven on Seven, is on the move. We're pleased to announce that the first international edition of the event is to be held at the Barbican Centre, London, on October 27, 2013.
Seven on Seven brings together luminaries from the fields of art and technology to work together for one day, in pairs, to create new projects – be they applications, concepts, artworks, products, or whatever they imagine. The results are unveiled the following day at the public conference.
Previously hosted with Rhizome's affiliate the New Museum, Seven on Seven has drawn sell-out crowds for the past four years, serving as an important meeting point between disciplines. Previous participants have included Dennis Crowley (Foursquare co-founder), David Karp (Tumblr founder) and the late internet activist Aaron Swartz, along with artists Jill Magid, Ryan Trecartin and Taryn Simon.
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Cristian F. Dumitrescu is a Software Engineer with the Intel Architecture Group.
Packet-processing systems reside within a network node and handle traffic transitioning through that node. Depending on the network's function, a typical system might be an Ethernet bridge or switch in a Local Area Network (LAN) from your home, office, or data center; a Wide Area Network (WAN) gateway, which is a device that connects your LAN network with the access network of your Internet Service Provider (ISP), ensuring the security of the connection; a Base Station, a Radio Network Controller (RNC) or other device from the access network of the mobile phone/wireless broadband network your phone/modem is connected to; an edge router or core router that is part of the Internet backbone; or any other device that handles the network packets as part of a network.
In this two-part article, we examine some of the typical problems engineers face while debugging packet-processing systems. Because of the complexity of these systems, it is imperative that packet-processing systems be designed with debug capabilities from the start. The techniques presented here represent a collection of built-in mechanisms to be provisioned from as early as the design phase to assist the system debugging at runtime, with the purpose of detecting any system errors from the first stages of development and testing. In Part 1, we examine issues related to debugging functional problems. In Part 2, we turn to debugging of stability and performance problems.
The Typical System Under Debugging
Since packet-processing systems are generally complex systems, debugging is not easy. Moreover, they now contain multicore processors with several on-chip and off-chip configurable acceleration engines and hard-wired logic blocks -- all performing under strict real-time requirements to achieve the expected throughput rate for the traffic flows they are designed to support.
The role of these systems is typically to receive packets from the network or the backplane interfaces, map each packet to one of the known connections (packet classification), process the packet in accordance with the connection requirements and return the packet back to the network or the backplane.
One key aspect is that even if the design is processor-centric and you are just writing software on the multicore processor, you have to debug the whole system, not just a single device in isolation.
Figure 1 illustrates a packet-processing system with at least four Gigabit Ethernet ports based on the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series. The system consists of two Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series processors supporting the simultaneous multithreading technology, thus bringing the number of hardware threads in the system to 16. The speed of the Intel QuickPath Interconnect bus is 6.40 GT/s. Each processor supports three channels of DDR3 memory. Each Intel Gigabit ET Quad Port Server Adapter supports four Gigabit Ethernet ports and is connected to the system through the PCI Express Gen2 bus.


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The soufflés can be assembled up to four hours ahead; chill until ready to bake.
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- Total Time
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- 6 teaspoons seedless boysenberry jam
- 24 frozen boysenberries or blackberries
- 2 tablespoons finely grated lemon peel
- 3/4 cup sugar, divided
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 3/4 cup whole milk
- 3 large eggs, separated
- 2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) butter
- 5 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- Powdered sugar
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Butter six 3/4-cup ramekins; coat with sugar. Spoon 1 teaspoon jam and 4 frozen berries into bottom of each ramekin. Place on baking sheet. Mash lemon peel and 1/2 cup sugar in heavy medium saucepan; whisk in cornstarch, then milk and yolks. Add 2 tablespoons butter. Bring to boil over medium heat, whisking constantly. Boil until thick pudding forms, whisking constantly, about 1 minute. Transfer to large bowl; mix in lemon juice. Season to taste with salt.
- Using electric mixer, beat egg whites in medium bowl to soft peaks. Gradually beat in 1/4 cup sugar; beat until stiff but not dry. Fold whites into warm lemon pudding. Spoon mixture atop berries; fill to top. Bake until puffed, set, and golden around edges, about 14 minutes. Sift powdered sugar over.
One serving contains the following: Calories (kcal) 240.95; % Calories from Fat 27.7; Fat (g) 7.42; Saturated Fat (g) 3.72; Cholesterol (mg) 119.05; Carbohydrates (g) 40.57; Dietary Fiber (g) 1.69; Total Sugars (g) 36.51; Net Carbs (g) 38.88; Protein (g) 4.61


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Future Pro Football Hall of Fame tight end Tony Gonzalez will join CBS' "The NFL Today" show starting this fall, joining James Brown, Boomer Esiason and Bill Cowher — and without Dan Marino and Shannon Sharpe, the network announced today.
"While we welcome Tony, we want to acknowledge Dan Marino and Shannon Sharpe who have contributed greatly to the success of 'The NFL Today' for more than a decade," said CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus in a statement. "Dan and Shannon are true Hall of Famers on the field and in front of the camera. As they pursue other professional opportunities, we thank them for their hard work and dedication and wish them nothing but the best."
Industry insiders are saying CBS decided not to renew the contracts of Marino and Sharpe, instead of the two former NFL stars deciding they wanted to leave. TheBigLead.com reported that the moves were likely to happen last month.
Sharpe said on his Twitter account:" I will not be a part of the NFL today on CBS this fall. Although sadden and disappointed, I'm grateful of 10 yrs I was."
Marino had been with the show for 12 years.
Esiason had talked about on his sports radio show recently about an apparent feud going between Marino and Sharpe.
Gonzalez, a Huntington Beach resident, ended his NFL career after 17 seasons, the league's all-leader in touchdowns and yards by a tight end. He will also do work with the "Inside the NFL" for Showtime as well as CBS Sports Network's "That Other Pregame Show."
Gonzalez has shown his media savvy in plenty of interview and TV appearances over the years. One of his latest comments about Atlanta Falcons quarter Matt Ryan.
"Having just stepped off the playing field, Tony brings a fresh and insightful perspective," said McManus.
McManus also told the Sports Business Daily that the network will likely hire one more analyst for the NFL pregame show.


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Catching up on last week's Economist this morning I found another example of financial buffoonery that boggles the mind. The article is online: Inter-bank interest rates; Cleaning up LIBOR -- A benchmark which matters to everyone needs fixing:
It is among the most important prices in finance. So allegations that LIBOR (the London inter-bank offered rate) has been manipulated are a serious worry.
LIBOR is meant to be a measure of banks' own borrowing costs, and is used as the foundation for a host of other interest rates. Everyone is affected by LIBOR: it influences the payments made on mortgages and personal loans, and those received on investments and pensions.
Given its importance, the way LIBOR is calculated is astonishingly flimsy. LIBOR rates are needed, every day, for 15 different borrowing maturities in ten different currencies. But hard data on banks' borrowing costs are not available every day, and this is the root of the LIBOR problem.
The British Bankers' Association (BBA), responsible for LIBOR, gets around it by asking banks, each day, what they feel they should pay to borrow.
So LIBOR rates—and the returns on $360 trillion of financial contracts related to them, five times global GDP—are based on best guesses rather than hard data.
Let that sink in and forget about what you learned in business school or economics classes. LIBOR isn't based on actual rates; it's based on feelings!
The next part of the article talks about suspicions that banks manipulate this broken process to the advantage of the financial sector.
The remainder offers recommendations for improvement:
[T]he BBA should revamp LIBOR to ensure it is simple, transparent and accountable. These principles suggest LIBOR should be based on actual inter-bank lending, with any gaps filled in with the help of statistical techniques. Banks' own guesses should be used as a last resort, not the first.
And regulators should collect data that could help spot LIBOR cheats: banks should be required to submit information on other banks' borrowing costs, as well as their own. Regulators could cross-check submissions against hard data on banking-sector risk, and publicly report LIBOR abusers.
Keep this system in mind the next time a so-called "master of the universe" offers a lecture on measuring risk in digital security.


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A podcast is a way to automatically download audio files to your computer, from a specific podcast show as new episodes or files are released. LibriVox podcast files are available Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, with a poem on Sunday. There is more information on the podcast page of the main LibriVox site.
What you need to get a podcast:
- A podcast receiver (sometimes called a podcatcher) which is just software that will find and collect the files you want (examples: iTunes, Juice). You could also try a web-based service such as odeo.
- The Firefox browser features a built-in Feed Reader to handle subscribing to a podcast, which it refers to as creating a "Live Bookmark".
- The "feed URL" of the podcasts you want (sometimes referred to as an "RSS feed"), and then you can enter the feed into the podcast receiver (called subscribing).
LibriVox podcast feed: http://librivox.org/podcast.xml In iTunes, for instance, you click: advanced/subscribe to podcast/ and then paste http://librivox.org/podcast.xml in there. And you're done!
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The link to a podcast (which has the extension ".xml") is known as an "RSS feed" (for "Really Simple Syndication"). This same mechanism, which is used for getting updates of podcast shows, can also be used to acquire any specific audio book, including story and poetry collections, in the LibriVox catalog. Every page in the catalog has a short set of links just below the description. Three of them are related to podcasting and RSS feeds, labeled, "RSS feed", "Subscribe in iTunes", and "Chapter-a-day".
There are instructions for using iTunes to get LibriVox audio books (ie, "subscribing").
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- To subscribe using iTunes, you may copy the LibriVox Podcast Feed link in the same way, then in iTunes choose "advanced" then "subscribe to podcast" and paste the link into the "url" field.
- Or you can simply click here: One-Click iTunes Subscription. If you get a pop-up, choose "launch application". iTunes will launch on your computer, and the !LibriVox podcast page will appear. Click the "subscribe" button, and you will be able to download past podcasts and automatically receive future podcasts.
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World Cup style TV screens to stream C.C.T.V. in British town centres
The government has announced plans to install enormous televisions in the streets of Britain's town centres, streaming live footage from C.C.T.V. cameras.
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The UFC's return to the Lone Star State required a bit of creativity from the company's matchmaking department, but all is now complete less than a week before the show.
A long-rumored matchup between Yves Edwards (38-16-1 MMA, 6-4 UFC) and John Gunderson (23-7 MMA, 1-1 UFC) is now official for the preliminary card of UFC Fight Night 22, and the event is now complete with 10 bouts.
Featuring a main event between middleweight contenders Nate Marquardt and Rousimar Palhares, UFC Fight Night 22 takes place Sept. 15 at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas.
The event airs on Spike TV and serves as the lead-in for the debut episode of "The Ultimate Fighter 12."
Edwards returns to the octagon after a four-year absence in which he served stints with BodogFIGHT, EliteXC, Strikeforce and, most recently, Bellator Fighting Championships.
Edwards' most recent win came in his promotional debut with the tournament-based Bellator promotion, where he bested Luis Palomino by decision at Bellator 24 in a one-off contest.
Gunderson, an IFL veteran, also reversed his fortune with a unanimous-decision over Mark Holst at The Ultimate Fighter 11 Finale. The former IFL regular fell short in his octagon debut with a decision loss to Rafaello Oliveira at UFC 108.
Gunderson was scheduled to take on Paul Taylor at UFC 112, but Taylor was removed from the Abu Dhabi card hours before it began due to a serious migraine headache. The two were rebooked to fight at The Ultimate Fighter 11 Finale, but Taylor was not medically cleared to fight, and the promotion subsequently slotted Holst in his spot.
With the official addition, UFC Fight Night 22 now includes:
- Nate Marquardt vs. Rousimar Palhares
- Efrain Escudero vs. Charles Oliveira
- Jim Miller vs. Gleison Tibau
- Cole Miller vs. Ross Pearson
- John Gunderson vs. Yves Edwards
- Jared Hamman vs. Kyle Kingsbury
- Dave Branch vs. Tomasz Drwal
- Rich Attonito vs. Rafael Natal
- David Mitchell vs. Anthony Waldburger
- Brian Foster vs. Forrest Petz
For more on UFC Fight Night 22, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).
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Here are some directions on how to remove the overlapped Final Satin Stitches on the Applique objects that are under another Applique object in a designs you are creating in Stitch Artist.
Also this will show you how you can use the Color Sort Function in order to be able to have the Stitch file you take to your machine stitch all the Applique Position Stitches first and then all the Material Tack Down Stitches next and then all your final Finishing stitches such as a final Satin Stitches or Blanket Stitches etc. when stitching a design that is made up of multiple Appliques.
First Click on Edit and then in the Drop Down Menu Choose Preferences.
Then choose and click on Files in the Left Index.
Make sure that Remove overlaps when saving files is checked to turned this on.
Make sure that Treat Objects labelled Applique Pos as filled is checked to turn this on.
Then Click Okay and close out of the Window
See Bottom picture below that shows these settings.
Next click on the Create Icon for Stitch Artist choose your art work or image file or Outlines from the Embrilliance Library which you will use for digitizing your design.
Then use the Draw with Points tool or Magic Wand to create your shapes for your Appliques.
Once you have all the shapes sized and positioned where you want them in the Hoop area of the Working window.
Now highlight all the Appliques Shapes showing in the Objects Pane on the right by clicking on one and then hold your Shift Key down and click on all of the other Applique Shapes showing in the Objects Pane.
Now while they are all highlighted click on the Applique Stitch Button to turn your shapes into Applique stitches.
Now you can work on each Applique or Highlight them all and in the Properties Pane and then set the following for what you want:
Under the Applique Tab
Set your Applique Stitch Type such as Satin Stitch, or Blanket Stitch,or E Stitch, or Zig Zag,
Set you Density and Stitch width.
Set if you want Position Stitches, Material Tack Down Stitches,
Set your Tie at Entry and Tie at Exit.
Under the Color Tab
Leave the first 2 colors for the Applique Position and Material Position as it is showing.
Set your last color , which will be for the final stitches that stitch on top of the applique material to any color you want it to be.
See Picture below of my Working be file for a Weird Applique Bird I put together!
It shows that I have 3 Appliques, each have an Applique Position Stitch color, an Applique Material color, and Last color named Madeira which is the color for the Final Satin Stitches I choose for my Appliques.
Now please note that my Applique shapes are overlapping each other at certain spots.
This means that there are going to be Satin Finishing Stitches stitching over top of some of the Satin Finishing Stitches of the applique shape that is under the Applique shape that is on top of it which would be very bulky and may not stitch nicely.
So in order to eliminate this problem we are going to remove the Satin Stitches of the Applique shape that is on the bottom in the spot where the Top Applique Final Satin Stitch will be stitching so we don't have 2 layers of satin stitches stitching on top of each other.
The Applique Position Stitches and the Appliques Material stitches will not be removed as they are not dense and will not cause any problems and will still be there to help us position the material and to hold the material down for the Appliques shape that is underneath. These 2 rows of stitches will be covered by the material for the Applique shape that is over top of them.
So how do we eliminate the Stitches underneath that we don't want????
We Highlight the Appliques Shapes in the Object Pane on the left and then under File select the Save Stitch File AS option to save the design as a stitch file for our machine.
Make sure to choose the stitch file format for your machine when saving.
Now if you want to have your Working file saved then highlight all the Applique Objects again in the Objects Pane and then under File choose Save Working File As option and name it.
See next picture
Now close out out of your program.
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See Creating Appliques #2 in Stitch Artist at the link below.
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What do you recommend doing if all the above steps have been followed but it still doesnt remove overlapping stitches? I have tried everything and spent 4 hours watching youtube videos thinking I must be missing something.
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Followed the steps and it is still not working. Any suggestion?
Re: RE: Creating Appliques #1 in Stitch Artist
can you be more specific - what's not working
note: In the "objects" window of (StitchArtist) on the right, rename the objects as "applique pos". The stitches always show up in StitchArtist, but when you save your project to your stitch file for your machine, the overlap will be gone. Try to match your position stitch color to you material.
note: In the "objects" window of (StitchArtist) on the right, rename the objects as "applique pos". The stitches always show up in StitchArtist, but when you save your project to your stitch file for your machine, the overlap will be gone. Try to match your position stitch color to you material.
Re: RE: Creating Appliques #1 in Stitch Artist
I am following the applique instruction on this site . When I hit save ( I have checked the preferences boxes) it is not eliminating the overlaps. In the objects panel, the items show up as " applique". When I select one , the color panel will shows the colors for the position, the material and the top stitch . The item in the object panel does not indicate the position stitch or the material stitch, it is just one item with no sub-layers showing. Unfortunately, I can't attach a screenshot to show you. I did a successful applique a month ago and it showed all the positions separate in the objects file. I cannot remember what I might have done different. Thanks for your help
Re: RE: Creating Appliques #1 in Stitch Artist
other suggestion: make sure you highlight both shapes in the Objects panel by shift clicking the second shape, then go to the Create button and assign the Applique stitch
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The party must appoint a sheriff following the Nov. 6 Ohio Supreme Court decision to remove George T. Maier. The court ruled that Maier did not meet the legal qualifications to hold the position at the time he was appointed in February. Specifically, Maier had served as a peace officer in the last four years but not in a full-time capacity as required.
The court returned Timothy Swanson to the position. Swanson, who plans to retire, was named interim sheriff in January by county commissioners because health issues prevented then-sheriff-elect Michael McDonald from taking office. McDonald died earlier this year.
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